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| 서명/저자사항 | Preschool confidential/ by Sandi Kahn Shelton. |
| 개인저자 | Shelton, Sandi Kahn,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN | 9781943772568 1943772568 |
| 내용주기 | Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 And Baby Turns Three; It talks!; And it eats-some things, at least; The two kinds of three-year-olds; Toilet training ... at last ... finally, sort of; Toothbrushes and other criminals; Creative dressing: "This is what my public expects"; How do you spell "independence"? I DO IT; Scenes in public now that they can tell people how rotten you are; Ranking scale of tantrums; 2 At Day Care, They Call Me Batman; Day care: an idea whose time has come; The uses of a one-eyed bunny and a stack of cotton balls. You are belly button lint, and the teacher is a goddessThe red cup and other daycare social conundrums; Speaking of Daddy ... ; Daycare romances; The things they can do at daycare and can't do at home; 3 Your Life, Only Interrupted; A simple trip to the store; Clothes make the man; New fashion trends you didn't think of; Regular household chores in only twice the time; The Arsenic Hour; Nine consequences of picking up a magazine; The new definition of class; The fork in your briefcase: how the people at work now see you; Things you never thought you'd say but now say all the time. The telephone-why it's never your turn to talk4 New Things to Worry About in the Middle of the Night; 5 Life Is Nothing But a Big Fat Holiday; Happy birthday presents to me ... ; ... and okay, happy birthday presents to you, too; Mother's Day; The Halloween negotiations; Scaring Santa Claus; 6 Sitting Down to Supper and Jumping Up Again; Life at the dinner table; Okay, so here's the real story of dinner; The pasta years-and years and years; Purple mashed potatoes; Fourteen known ways of making macaroni and cheese; When kids cook; Worm blood stew-or the joys of renaming foods. 7 Four Years Old: All That I Am, I Owe to My PreschoolLife in the theater of the absurd; Peer pressure; Politics on the playground; The witness protection program-or the new regime of daily life; A pooster is a kid who's crying for his mother; Birthday parties; Talking about sex; Death and the meaning of life; 8 Your Life, Interrupted Even More; Take bedtime-please; A look around at your life; Why we can't be on vacation when we're still in the driveway; The vacation question derby; The true story of baby-sitters; Sick days-and nights; The return to health; 9 Signs You Live with a Preschooler. 10 Life Among the ToysLose the rubber chicken while you still have your brain intact; Barbie and her lifestyle; Breast-feeding the trucks at day care; While you wait for them to play Scrabble with you, how about ... Candy Land?; Toy fads you never planned to fall for; Stuffed animals everywhere you look; The very worst toys; Don't name the Mylar balloons; 11 Just Some of the 437 Questions; 12 Monsters, Bugs, and the Threat of Shampoo; Monsters under the bed, behind the toilet, and in the heating vents; The age of irrationality; Explaining about bad guys without scaring everybody to death. |
| 요약 | "Laugh-out-loud comments and astute remarks will help lighten any mother's load and keep things in perspective ... This is a refreshing look at child rearing, written in short sections that can be read in five to ten minutes a perfect fit for a mother's schedule."--Library Journal So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd reached the blissful stretch of parenthood ... here come the toddler/preschool years! Only Sandi Kahn Shelton could deliver such a dead-on, hilarious, true-ringing look at the walking, talking, crazy years. In Preschool Confidential, she explores such universal topics as: --Dealing with the mutiny in the checkout line (aka: begging or bribing?). --Presenting scientific proof that toddlers ask 437 questions per day. --Unveiling the four "answers" that any parent can recycle to respond to any toddler's question. --Understanding day-care romances. to ask (at the most inopportune moments). --Dissecting the anatomy of a birthday party (or how to control a group of four-year-olds without ropes or sedatives). --Cooking purple mashed potatoes, and emergency tactics to stave off a hunger strike. --And much more! Preschool Confidential will have you howling at the apt, accurate, and painfully honest look at the preschool years!! "The true successor to Erma Bombeck's throne." -WorkingMother magazine "For frazzled working moms, columnist Sandi Kahn Shelton's funny essays on parenting are a fail-safe way to lighten up." -Wall Street Journal "I'm thankful that this very funny and observant lady is not a cartoonist!" -Bil Keane, creator of "The Family Circus." |
| 일반주제명 | Toddlers. Preschool children. Parenting --Humor. Parent and child --Humor. Overdrive --Ebook. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS --General. Parent and child. Parenting. Preschool children. Toddlers. |
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